I have a Brother 5240 and just use the HP PCL support with gs.
My printcap says:
lp|brother:\
:lp=:rm=192.168.1.2\
:rp=L1:sd=/var/spool/brother:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:sh:\
:if=/usr/local/bin/lppsfilter:
and my /usr/local/bin/lppsfilter has:
/usr/local/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pxlmono -sOutputFile=- -
postscript printer works great. I never bothered to get asci working, as I never use it personally. There are pleanty of examples on how to setup another ascii printer or use some detection method.
don't forget to create the spool directory.
I love my brother printer. The best $50 I've spent in a while!
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